Gainer
A gainer is an acrobatic skill in which the acrobat performs a backwards somersault while still moving forward (used primarily to maintain momentum, while performing a move that requires a full body rotation). In diving, this is known as reverse rotation (as opposed to front, back, or inward). Many stunt performers and martial artists are capable of performing a similar skill on the ground, sometimes in combination with a midair inverted kick.
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“Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one way or another.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
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